Maisonet v. New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Family Development

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts not required by Supremacy Clause to exercise original jurisdiction over civil-rights claim when asserted for first time on appeal
• holding that courts not required by Supremacy Clause to exercise original jurisdiction over civil-rights claim when asserted for first time on appeal
• confirming that state courts can “enforce federal rights or claims” (citing Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131, 138 (1988))
• “[a] section 1983 action may be brought in state court”
• \[a] section 1983 action may be brought in state court\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).